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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>The people that hold your position also say that the privileged can't be disadvantaged. Sorry, I don't get it. Can you elaborate please?
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This argument doesn't have merit. Tragedy of commons/game theory provides us the basis to understand that individual/group efforts are insufficient. Voluntary donations to government from well-meaning individuals will put the
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This consideration is missing in most of discussions about basic income. What is the opportunity cost of NOT implementing a basic income scheme? What if we make an effort to assess the opportunity cost in longevity changes, public health in
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I had no idea either and was quite surprised to see the attack on Mozilla from the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Decided to dig deeper and lost a significant chunk of my naivete concerning a certain type of open source
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This Eric Raymond? "Pederasty, at least, remains a common behavior among modern homosexuals. The `twink’ or compliant teenage boy (usually blond, usually muscled, depicted in the first dewy flush of postpubescence) is the standard fant
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>core values we would expect Who are the "we" you are speaking for? >the hacker ethic. You are trying to impose your own, personal values, a subset of vaguely defined hacker ethic, on Mozilla. However, Mozilla's stated
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
> There's a political agenda and they probably don't know that they are doing it. Ah, the old good FUD. Anything done on Mozilla's scale has political agenda as complex problems include multiple stakeholders and conflictin
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I agree that it is a valid concern but it doesn't support the "Google sells user data" premise without reductio ad absurdum.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
As someone who transitioned from 100% business/marketing side to 25% business and 75% development, actually I am not missing the point. There are many upsides to running and owning a tech business and for some of the engineers those up
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>It's about 5% the first and 95% the second, sadly. I do agree and believe most VCs successes to be self-fulfilling prophecies.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Thank you for a detailed response and an opportunity to debate this issue. >you're at a much lower figure for net expendable income than the numbers here. I am from a country where most people earn less than $500/month. Most Am
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
You are absolutely correct and I would love to see a scalable, sustainable community-based solution where languages would be designed for the social value first and megacorps second. I would prefer this solution to offer financial incentive
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I quite disagree with the premise of this quote for the following reason. When commercial product is being built, external requirements and interests are imposed on founders and their aspirations to create interesting/innovative softw
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>everyone is cut out for the startup lifestyle I would not wish startup lifestyle on anyone and I don't advocate for that. I may have been unclear, but the engineers in question are exactly the kind of people who don't need to
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I understand that highly compensated engineers get to solve unique challenges on grand scale, enjoy their jobs and are generally content with their professional positions. But I just can't stop wishing for those engineers using their
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>What he meant was simply that it is obvious that Mozilla cares about income from their ads, not about the state of digital advertising Yes. I do not agree with this statement. Mozilla as an organization, as a collective of individuals a
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>I don't think anybody care about the state of digital advertising except marketers. As I have demonstrated with a simple example, this statement is false. >Most users would prefer if there would be no ads at all. Your attempt at
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
An organization being for-profit or non-profit is not particularly important distinction? Elaborate please.
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>At least one would hope they could be honest in their goal, I don't think anybody care about the state of digital advertising except marketers. So users wouldn't care if most ads would be popups and autoplay sound, right? Oh,
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Google doesn't sell your personal information, it provides access to your eyeballs.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Good. Non-profits with proven track records such as Mozilla are the only entities I trust to run an ethical ad network. While I care about privacy and have ghostery, ublock and eff privacy badger installed, I'll be making an exception
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
> saying nothing in a vacuously charismatic and uselessly intelligent Most parts of your rant are recursively applicable to your own comment.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>If you don't think the other participants are going to mostly be reasonable and that staff are going to be reasonable about dealing with mild complaints, don't attend! This should be a wake up call for you to reconsider your p
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Are you being daft? Lots of people will spend several days together on a cruise ship. They will get acquainted, exchange opinions, drink, have fun, socialize, discuss various topics they are interested in. Developers are human, you know, no
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>I expect the remedy in that situation would be to recommend that the speaker and offended person not discuss religion any further. The horror. Let's not simplify and make a more elaborate analysis. Ok, so you propose that developer
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This is a complex question, don't reduce it to the one dimensional "decent person" angle. If it would be so simple, the CoC would consist of one phrase: "use common sense during communication with others". I underst
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Why would you?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
So, is V for Vendetta still legal in UK?
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Soundbites are so prevalent precisely because they work. The other authoritarian side will be using them and many other methods of propaganda. I agree that in every individual case it is preferable to have a reasonable discussion, but that
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I share your values but I don't consider myself to be a romantic. On the contrary, to my current knowledge building a sustainable non-profit org or social enterprise that has a chance to benefit a large number of people is more rewardi

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